Petrobras Scandal has Brazil's Government Skating on Thin Ice

As Brazil's governability crisis escalates senate president Renan Calheiros has emerged as the political operator who can best protect the institutional legitimacy of embattled president Dilma Rousseff and her fragile Worker's Party (PT) coalition government. Dilma's political “bodyguard” The 59 year old Calheiros, from Alagoas State, a major tobacco producer, in the poor northeast, has served as president of Brazil's senate four times. He is a member of the centrist Popular Democratic...